Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim James , the council 's urban woodlands officer , said : ‘ Dutch elm disease has killed some of the trees and the high winds have accounted for some of the pine and larch . |
| 2 | The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked for all the relevant papers on the nine British soldiers killed by so-called friendly fire in the Gulf . |
| 3 | I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions . |
| 4 | Court cases and the resulting media responses given to these new ‘ drug fiends ’ ( to use the phrase coined by Stanley Cohen ( 1973 ) ) verged almost on the hysterical ( see Young 1977 ) , and moral entrepreneurs began to press for more controls and increased action . |
| 5 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 6 | The fact is that , when children really need to be aggressive , their artificial , if realistic-looking weapons seem to count for less than such natural weapons as teeth and fists . |
| 7 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 8 | ‘ Headway Intermediate is one of the soundest , most innovative coursebooks to have appeared for some time . ’ |
| 9 | Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer . |
| 10 | Such palpable absurdities have continued for some 20 years , despite the partial and cautious liberalisation of the past three or four . |
| 11 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 12 | Regional railways have asked for that as well . |
| 13 | New applicants wishing to apply for these vouchers should write to Her Majesty 's Representative , The Ascot Office , St James 's Palace , SW1A 1BP , before 31st March , stating the full name of those members of their family who require vouchers , together with their ages if between 16–25 years . |
| 14 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 15 | Modest chain-link fences have existed for some time in the border cities of El Paso and Brownsville , Texas . |